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Comment by ucantcme

Good luck farming this guys, yesterday me and a hunter were farming for it all day. Finally his brother came, a Warrior, and we ended up farming this for a total of 4 an 1/2 hours. It finally dropped for us off a Hederine Initiate. So excited it finally dropped for my priest, just gotta wait until next MC to see if The Eye of Divinity drops. Good luck everyone trying to get this, keep on farming!

Comment by Morvran

It's better to get the Eye of Divinity first. For some reason, it seems that when the Eye of Divinity drops, the drop rate of the Eye of Shadow jumps up to 33% off mobs. Just a tip so you don't waste your time trying to get the Eye of Shadow. (This is according to my guild - we have seen two Eye of Shadows drop in four mob kills. Both priests had the Eye of Divinity with them.)

Comment by pigmonkey

I highly doubt this is true in the least, I know I personally farmed with the first priest to get one for 6 hours before it dropped, and we had quite a group going.

Comment by Kremonte

For people looking to try solo farming this, best of luck to ya. With the horrendous drop rates and the easy linkage throughout the gorge, you have very little room to kite. If you are up for it though, perhaps I can offer some strategies -

as a Warlock,Dooming; open up with a doom, SB, then banish rank TWO. Use some sort of timers and time it so the moment banish two wears, you land a banish rank one, for a combined duration of 50 seconds. With running time, this means you have 4-5 seconds of leeway to screw up one of the banishes. However, on initiates especially, it's tricky as they have high shadow resist. If this is the case and you have no -resistance-on-target gear, you may want to use two banish rank ones, and going all out DPS in the meantime. Initiates have less HP but do more damage; a felhunter for dispels and shadow ward rank twos are a must-have. Slayers hit hard and kick ass, if you get crit and then MSed, you're dead.OR, straight-DPSing; pull with a curse (elements/shadows) and fear spam as you dot and wand, recklessnessing or popping SB/conflag if in danger of linking. This is faster, but harder; there is no safety from banishing, and you can get many adds with fear, but instead of the 3.5k damage/minute you can more than triple it with gear. Recommended for SL, as you can take more hits (VW MD)

As a hunter too, they're soloable, but tricky indeed. The best way I found is the long, arduous task of sending pet in, DPSing for 10s, cower, FD trap, and repeating over and over. However, this means a small amount of DPS - maybe 4000 in a minute. About as fast as doom kiting, but more of a pain in that your pet's probably going to die every pull. Another possible alternative is to lay a frost trap and kite around it, retrapping when needbe, however this is only recommended if a good deal of kiting room is available, since getting in melee range is killer.

As a rogue, they're soloable too, but really only every 5, 3.5, or 2.5 minutes - you need evasion for it, and unless you have impeccable gear, you're probably going to want to prep evasion to keep yourself alive. Initiates are easily doable, kicks and gouges, but the slayers will tear any rogue apart in a moment if luck isn't on your side.

Oddly enough, one of the few classes that I haven't been able to solo farm the EoS is is... priest. Anyway, best of luck to ya.

Comment by kniteshift

Not too bad to farm, really easy. Lord Kazzak drops it, or the demons in winterspring have a low drop on it. Farmed 2 in less than 2 hrs.

Comment by kreghx

Obtain the Eye of Shadow. The Eye of Shadow drops off of Lord Kazzak, a very powerful elite boss in the Blasted Lands. Bring a raid group. Currently, you MUST be in the kill group in order to loot the Eye. Tigole says they plan to change this so you can loot the Eye even if you're not in the raid group. Update from Tregga: Well it seems Tigole was mistaken about the impending change. He just came back and said you will have to be in the group that tags Kazzak in order to have a chance to loot it. However, it was not intended to have the Priest epic quest loot only drop from raid encounters. The devs are looking into alternate methods for Priests to get the drops required for the epic quest.

Tips for fighting Lord Kazzak

First of all, his attacks:

Melee His melee attacks are pretty weak, no more than 1500 hits on cloth users.

'Shadowbolt Volley' Shoots out an insanely long range volley of Shadowbolts that damage anything it can target in distance for 800-1000 damage. The volley totally ignores all line of sight issues: it cannot be dodged.

Twisted Reflection Casts a magical debuff (on a random player in range other than the player with aggro) that heals Lord Kazzak for 25,000 health each time he deals damage to the player with this debuff. This combined with the Shadowbolt Volley can ruin the attempt.

Mark of Kazzak Casts a curse (on a random player in range with mana) that drains the target's mana for 250 per second and explodes for 4,000 AOE damage when there is no more mana to drain. A living bomb.

Cleave Attacks a number of melee range players around him with a cleaving strike that deals 1000-2000 damage to each. Since a 'blind spot' has not been found, Cleave might be capped to a certain number of players affected.

Thunderclap A point blank area of effect spell, hardly dealing any damage, but slowing movement speed. Some have reported 200 damage, some say it doesn't deal damage at all. Doesn't seem to affect attacking speed either.

Void Bolt A strong bolt he may cast only on the player with aggro, deals up to 3000 shadow damage (or more!).

Alright, now you know pretty well what you're fighting against. Here's how the battle itself works:

Once he is aggroed and the fight begins, you have no more than three (3) minutes to kill him. I'll explain later why. He starts off with everything he's got. He keeps meleeing the main tank while Cleaving once in a while for rogues swarming around him and keeps sending Shadowbolt Volleys to hurt everyone around. The volleys are not on a timer, instead he casts them as he sees fit. In some rare cases there's about 30 seconds between the casts, sometimes he does it every five seconds. In the meantime, he casts Twisted Reflection and the rarer Mark of Kazzak on random people.

Comment by kreghx

What to do here: Send your main tank in and let him build some aggro for a short while, just enough so he won't come at you the first time you cast something on him. Then unload. Have your DPS classes give him everything they have. Priests have to be extra mindful about the magical debuff he casts on your group. It has to be removed as soon as possible or the attempt will soon end in a disaster. Priests are also in charge of healing their groups thanks to that Shadowbolt Volley that keeps hitting everyone all the time. Mages need to be on top of the curse situtation. Mark of Kazzak can and will cause a wipe if you let it go off on you. Dispel the curse as soon as you can. All casters should also leave about 1000 mana in their mana pool just in case he casts the curse on you. That'll give the mages four seconds to dispel before it goes off. In other words, 1000 mana is out of mana in this raid encounter. Also, anyone dying during the fight is not an option. Unless it happens during the first five seconds of the fight, you've failed already. Do not use grounding totems, pets or other small things he can kill for the 70,000 health heal.

Your group will have exactly three minutes to finish the demon off. If you fail to kill him in that time due to lack of DPS, people dying or not dispelling Twisted Reflection properly, Lord Kazzak will enter what is called the supreme mode. Named after his yell once it triggers, the supreme mode causes him to cast his Shadowbolt every second. That's 800-1000 DPS on everyone, kids, and that means a wipe.

4. Combine the 3 items. Once you have all 3 items, combine them to form your new epic staff, Anathema/Benediction. Using one form of the staff will change it to the other and visa versa. Congratulations! You're completed your Priest epic quest!

Update: With the 1.8 patch, the staff can now be successfully enchanted. Only one enchantment can be applied to the staff. You cannot have one enchantment per side.

Update 3/28/06: From Indanak on the Bloodscalp Server:

We have a group of 4 priests: Flathra, Moonora, Feoria and myself. We selected one priest ( Feoria ) to accept the quest (we all were able to join the quest with her). The other 3 of us stood on the hill with the NPC. We didnt move and were able to heal the humans as they walked towards us. So we had 4 people healing them at once. Only 2 humans died and we all got the Splinter of Nordrassil.

Key Points:Can only heal and abolish disease on humans.CANNOT heal party members or a boss spawns and tears everyone to shreds.the 3 members who are on the hill cannot move.

Comment by Drakkonis

Priests need this item for the epic staff quest, the other piece needed drops in Molten Core in Major Domo's loot chest, eye of divinity

Comment by Mikezila

This is more or less worthless now. It's down to like 10g on my server, and there is a backstock of more than five of them at the auction house.

Nobody goes into MC anymore, so unless you have 39 friends with four hours on their hands, getting your epic staff is more or less impossible.

You could buy it for cheap now, wait until you get 70, and then go into MC with a much smaller party. Like 15 or 20 can do the entire instance.

Good luck.

Comment by Bosvrucht

I was farming for Thorium Ore today and this Hederine Slayer knocked me off my mount. After killing him I looted this, lol.

Comment by bloodlibel

Got one from the 4th or 5th mob I killed while doing the prereq quest for my warlocks doomguard quest. Knowing that it's worthless now I just equipped it. It kinda fits a warlock :)

Comment by bmoc65

What does it DO when you equip it?All it says is "Seething darkness engulfs the eye."

Comment by Kurei

The droprate might have been upped somewhat.. I just got two eyes in eight kills.

Comment by Amper

Well, I just got 1 Eye of Shadow out of 2 kills. And it is not soulbound, so you can borrow it to another priests.

Comment by vidiana

O.o didn't even know it dropped there but got in first kill....^^...

Comment by Heimdallen

The mobs in Darkwhisper Gorge in Winterspring are terribly easy to farm at 70, I'd rate them as equivalent to perhaps a level 72 non-elite. Since this trinket is all but useless as previously mentioned, I'm not sure why you'd be after it, but it is fun sometimes to go back and get some of the things you never had a chance to at 60. I believe the drop rate on this item has been significantly increased, as I was farming felcloth from the elites in Darkwhisper and had 3 eye of shadow drop for me over only 10 mobs. Seems this is too many to be sheer luck and I imagine the drop rates listed for these mobs are not accurate if the drop rate HAS been changed since virtually no one kills these mobs anymore. So end of story is, if for some reason you have a burning desire to get this, shouldn't take you more than 5 or 10 minutes now.

Comment by doxinjo

The funny thing is that i mined and i attacked everyone aroundcause im level 70 i kill only 3-4 mobs in area and got The Eyeof the Shadow.....in Winterspring.

Comment by Corbon

I got 100g for it just recently but since it's unique you can't really farm them in larger quantities. You always need to get rid of the first Eye in order to pick up another one (back to Everlook, etc.). If you're after money, there are much better places to farm, like doing all the new dailies.

Comment by Dhazy

These don't seem to sell in the AH anymore since they're worthless without the Eye of Divinity. On my server, barely anyone has ever heard of Molten Core. lol I sold one for 5g to a guy and he then tried to sell it for 300g. He's still trying to sell it today.

Comment by whitehusky

With patch 3.0 having just been released, a lot of raids will be going through Molten Core just to get their Achievement done. This means a lot of Priests may get their Eye of Divinity for nostalgic reasons and want to complete the quest chain. My husband is one such Priest. We will be spending our spare time farming for the Eye of Shadow (it's easy to solo these mobs at 70). We want to farm a second one to sell in the AH experimentally with a bid and no buyout just to see what it may sell for while the Achievements are popular.

Comment by Skoro

This just dropped for my 70 pally off a Hederine Slayer in Darkwhisper Gorge in Winterspring while I was farming for thorium. I got this off my 7th or 8th Slayer, so either I was pretty lucky or it isn't that rare of a drop.

Comment by Gillibuns

As a 80, should I farm this item @ Blasted Lands? Seems to have more drop % there.

Comment by Lilylazer

The trinket doesn't seem to do -anything-. But as it's a core piece of obtaining Benediction, I think I'll be holding on to it.

As of WotLK expansion, you cannot fight Lord Kazzak in the Blasted Lands anymore, only his newer, bolder and more improved self in Hellfire Penninsula. You'll have to farm the elite demon mobs in either Blasted Lands or Winterspring, and I'd recommend Blasted Lands.

As a level 80 mage, this took about an hour and a half of farming to get while in the Blasted Lands. I primarily focused on the Dreadlords in the south-west portion of the crater. They spawn clustered together, and while waiting for them to respawn you can take on other demons.

At this level, the mobs are easy enough to solo, but be careful not to pull more then one or you may have some trouble.

Good luck farming this!

Comment by Kataya

This can drop even if you have it in your inventory, but you will be unable to loot it.

Edit: Fortunately there is a long time until the corpse despawns, this dropped for me and I was unable to loot it, so I went through the dark portal, flew to thrallmar, sent it to my bank, flew back, went though the dark portal again and looted the second eye of shadow, it dropped off a felguard elite.

Comment by insanniac

This just dropped for me on one of my DKs... in winterspring.. was farming thorium and one of the demons dropped it... its gonna be in AH for a sick amount of gold..... buy it if u want it... not holding much faith in selling thou, prolly gonna wind up vendoring the item

Comment by angaurunetotem

I was in Darkwhisper Gorge to see Vi'el about some Felcloth. He of course didn't have any so I was ticked and decided to kill some of the Hederine in the area. I went to the cave on the right past Vi'el and not only did I get 2 Felcloth off the first 2 I killed the third one gave me The Eye of Shadow.

Comment by rubberjelly

Having this equipped alows you to see a ghost in Shattrath who stands next to Haris Pilton, the ghost is called "Ricole Nichie" Which is a reference to Paris Hiltons, in real life friend Nicole Richie.

Comment by Agereautmore

You're thinking of the Eye of Divinity

Comment by vlakarados

I was lucky, it dropped from the ~20th mob, I was farming QItems for the doomguard q.

Comment by BeaverDono

There is no use for this item anymore since the patch 3.0.8 broke the chain quest (Poisoned Water) that is associated to for obtaining Eye of Divinity.

So unless you have complete the Poisoned Water quest prior to the 3.0.8 patch, the item Benediction is no longer a attainable.

Comment by Galindalol

As of patch 3.1.2 I can't seem to get the eye of shadow to drop from any of the sources listed, many of you are saying that its easy to obtain, which I can't really see :P as I've been farming it for almost 5-6hours, and still no luck. Am i just being unlucky or did something happen to the drop rate?

Comment by compulim

I was solo-ing in Blasted Land for Draconic for Dummies, got it off from a Felguard Elite. Not in a party and I am a Paladin.

Comment by prodruid

I'm so lucky, i got it just farming demonic runes for my jc skill

Comment by shadestep

Got it from one of the felguard elite in blasted lands : )was bored so i gone grinding some demonic runes for bs/money then i got it:)

Comment by neoreaper

ive goten a ton of their other rare drops and still no eye. all i want is my benidiction! JUST DROP!

Comment by Kokitos

I tried to solo te elites in winterspring....I could handle them as a lvl 60 Shadow priest but it has like 1% to drop...I look for it every day in AH buti can't find it.If you are on Stormscale EU please contact me if you find it on AH....

Comment by bigmclrghuge

Just got two of these to drop today while farming felcloth and thorium on my death knight. Was farming in the southern region of Winterspring. Solo, so you dont have to be in a group.

Comment by Nyalee

If you are 80, and want the staff 'just because' like me --*Solo Farming: Go to the Southern Part of Winterspring, I suggest skipping the Felhounds as they'll eat through your mana like you don't know what happened. Succubus are easiest, Felguards do a MS but it's not bad. At 80, you should be able to chain pull without going OOM for quite awhile if skipping Felhound. These DO have a lower drop rate then those in Blasted Lands, but I do not suggest soloing Blasted Lands. You can kill 2-3x more in the same time and without going oom here then there.

*Group Farming (2-3 people): Blasted Lands is significantly more condensed with the mobs, they're all relatively the same but they have about 3x more health then those in Winterspring, they also hit harder and faster. If you have the friends to do this option, I do suggest it, otherwise it's more efficient to kill those in Winterspring. These, as a decently/well geared 80 Priest (Uld/ToCrus epics) - I cannot generally take more then one, and this is back to back bubbles, renew, and Pain Suppression when needed. I just can't do it. Also, they're 3-6k mana each to kill. Very inefficient.

Good luck!

Comment by thelazypeon

I farmed this twice for a friend - got it myself pre-bc from kaz.

At level 80 I recommend going to Darkwhisper Gorge oppose to Blasted Lands. On my prot pally in the Tainted Scar (Blasted Lands) I can pull 7+ of any of the mobs and come out with 80% hp. However, all those mobs have upwards of 50k hp.

The mobs in Darkwhisper Gorge on the other hand, have 18000 hp and have the same drop rate on the item. The only benefit to Blasted Lands is the mobs are much closer together. That however, is not good if you are a cloth class because they can still wtfpwn you.

Comment by goomba

Just got mine soloing the felguards and other mobs in blasted lands on my 80 pally, started out in holy gear, then switched to ret and just pulled 4-5 and roflstomped them down in a hurry, dropped after about 20-30 minutes. Now I gotta level a priest and get the other eye from domo =/

happy hunting =)

Comment by kikiko3

Gief black eye design on equipt

Comment by heliosmj12

Was in Darkwhisper gorge soloing, farming Thorium, when this dropped from one of the elites, then not even 5 minutes later another dropped, and I wasn't even killing many mobs at all, was trying to steer clear to avoid unnecessary battles.

Comment by Krimzai

Took my priest ~200 kills to drop.For solo farming as priest I recommend killing demons in southern Winterspring. Demons from Blasted Lands will own you.Don't expect it to be easy to get, it is 1-2% drop chance after all.

Did this as level 80.

Comment by gothwizard

Definately a nice epic drop, just useless as hell, had 3 drop in once hour while looking for pristine black diamonds, unfortunately had the Grimore drop on the 4th pass, to bad its bop.

Comment by fatboys1im

I saw it drop twice in 10 kills up in winterspring. Course you cant loot it twice if one's in your bag so........

Comment by Catweazle

When I first started I avoided killing the felhounds, but soon discovered why this was a bad idea. The mobs in this area randomly spawn as one of the three different types you find there. If you only kill the felguard and succubus mobs, you'll eventually end up having Darkwhisper Gorge absolutely filled with nothing but those annoying felhounds.

As an 80 hunter I found it was much more efficient to grind in Blasted Lands. I could send in my turtle, start auto shot and then sit back and watch TV while the mobs died. It still took days to get though, I almost gave up on it.

Comment by Sgnuk

Took me 388 Kills to find the eye as a ICC10/TOC geared priest. Farming was easy in winterspring so i decided to keep searching there.Finding the eye of shadow is kinda like trying to drop the Deathcharger from the Baron Eivendare, it will take time and some kill, except that these enemies die more quickly.But the task is very similar. Good luck finding your eye

Comment by jone1606

Just went farming the Heredine slayers for some Felcloth...

30 kills: 4 eye of shadows, 1 felcloth

they must have seriously upped the drop rate on these.

Also... the first 3 eye of shadows where on the first 5 kills...

Perhaps I just got seriously lucky? I had to run back to everlook and mail each one to different characters because they're unique.

Comment by Coalvayne

I got one to drop almost immediately doing a Warlock quest here. It was like the second or third kill. Now only if I were a Priest =S

Comment by Reflectyca

Dropped 3 in about 2 hours whilst farming for Ritual of Doom. Now's a good time as ever to create my twink Priest I suppose.

Also if someone goes to farm them in order to sell, don't forget to add them to the AH before continuing after each drop.As far as I know putting them on the AH is the only way to "carry" more than 1 at the same time.

Comment by Demolidor

LOL I thought I was going to spend my day farming for this thing. I killed 4 Manahounds and at the fifth one, The Eye of Shadow drops =P Boy, I must be lucky.

Comment by jone1606

They don't drop off the manahounds. -1

Comment by WowORC

i just bought this from the AH for only 10g i didnt know what to do with it sence it was the only one on i just said in trade chat WTS The Eye of Shadow pst with offer got 3 offfer one said 5g the outher 100g and the last one 500g i just got lucky some lv 80 priest was happy told me i saw one on the AH just the past week for 10g i was laughing on the inside then i said who would do that i made 490g in 4 days from 3.9 days no play time lol it is all timeing

Comment by Steelehead

Amazing how things you are not looking for will drop.... I have spent countless hours farming for Mr. pinchy, with no luck as of yet.. never heard of "The Eye Of Shadow" till 1 dropped on my second round thru Darkwhisper Gorge... was only killing the fel guards ( Hederine slayers and initiates ) as I was trying to check the drop rate on Felcloth... 1 The Eye Of Shadow, 1 felcloth, 1 decent blue and 3 greens in about 25 kills.... guessing this area is not farmed much anymore lol

Comment by Steelehead

wow.... make that 2 The Eye Of Shadow in 26 kills.. dropped on consecutive kills... good thing I had MOLL-E with me... mailed one to my priest, picked up the second.

Comment by Liliris

For any of you wondering, these DO still drop as of 4.0.1. I just went farming for my priest and got it on the 36th kill from the winterspring elites. I did farm for a while in Badlands as well without any success earlier today and decided to switch it up and try my luck in winterspring, can't even tell you how happy I am that I did =)

Comment by Acrisor

THIS ITEM CAN NO LONGER BE OBTAINED!This item was removed at Cataclysm expansion.

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Comment by Jouii

Well, coming here for info on this item was . . . interesting, a little. Got lots of info on how to farm it, availability in the various AH's, and probability of it dropping. All good info. Now if someone could just give one tiny, little, (miniscule, really,) bit of additional info for me, I'll be all set . . . .

WHAT THE HELL DOES IT DO, & WHAT CLASSES CAN USE IT?

Comment by Martika

Someone had this listed in the AH on Nesingwary for 50k. If it's true the other item no longer drops, then it seems the only way this would be of value is if someone already has the other half in their bank and never got around to using it...

Comment by LifescanX

Since all listed mobs that can drop this item no longer exist can this item even drop anymore?

Comment by Stinfter

Priest's! We do have some hope at getting this item back, http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/3080308175?page=1 , get as many people as you can to post on that thread in hopes of bringing back Benediction/Anathema as the quest line or just back in game, the Devo's just need to hear a voice that we MISS this item.

Comment by Lespaul1981

Says this has been removed by I sit here staring at one on the AH as I type... 50k. well worth it...

Comment by Samaramon1

Just got one off my local Ah for 200g. Insane person!

I already have Benediction/Anathema, but I had to have this for nostalgia's sake :)

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Comment by Helke

I also have one for sale.Khaz'Goroth Alliance. Please send in-game mail to 'Adversary' if interested.

Comment by Skandnspank

Got two of these in Aggramar- EU (Skandaali).

Comment by gabrielmengele

I am selling one of these on Alliance US Malfurion.Send an in-game mail to "Gnomassacre" if interested.

Comment by studentluke

Got one on Sylvanas EU. Send Dusklol ingame message.

Comment by Procurus

Unable to make anything with it anymore. Would only be good as a useless "twink" item to equip on your BC level banker. Sold last few on my srver for 2k max, last buyer relisted at 50k,, lol good luck!

Comment by hayabusa80

If someone want this for nostalgia's sake...

I sell this on Horde side of Eonar (EU) /w or mail "Kanani" with an good offer.